A Quiet Don, An Eloquent Don

Shokugeki-no SOMA 13//Random fact #1: It seems that Saeki Shun is learning a few things from Koisome Momiji's Miura Tadahiro, if he's learning tips on how to draw girls then I have no complains//Random fact #2: I had to take a rest to eat (since this chapter made me get really hungry) and I ate like 500g of meat XD.//You might want to read this FAQ about my translations before using this.

p2Shigeno: The cut meat looks like a flower...Box: Traditional Japanese Restaurant "Kuraki" President Kuraki ShigenoShigeno: To think I got to see such a beautiful Don...Host?: Then---SFX: //I guess this is some sort of munch(?) romaji "juwaaa"SFX: //almost same as last one, this is "jujuwaa"SFX: //I guess this is supposed to be the sound of the meat moving inside her mouth, romaji "tyururu"SFX: //And this is it going through her throat, romaji "tururun"

p3Shigeno: It's so deliciousShigeno: I can't keep standing!!!Yoshiki: This is it...This deep deliciousness what makes A5 amazing!Yoshiki: And this meat...Even the "Fire's angle" was calculated!Box: Japanese Black Critic Bitou YoshikiYoshiki: She put the flames perpendicular to the meat's fibers’ orientation...By doing that, the heat enters uniformly and the juice starts flowing actively.Yoshiki: A first class master even reads how the fibers are!

p4Katsunori: And the garlic rice Katsunori: Below the flower petals was fried with beef tallow and butter and is also superb! //you can change fried for cooked and remove the "flower" if you wantKatsunori: I would be able to eat three bowls of just this garlic rice!Box: TV Program "First-class gluttons" Producer Okamoto Katsunori //Romaji "Kuishinbou Joutou"Katsunori: It's an unbelievable dish that was finished on a way that's almost sexy! //eroticalIkumi(thinks): How about that, transfer student...?Ikumi(thinks): This is meat's ecstasy!!Voice: It's decided.Voice: What kind of face will that bastard transfer student make when he loses?Host: Next, we'll have the judgement of Yukihira-kun's dish!Host: What's the title of your Don?Souma: Let's see...I'll call itSouma: Yukihira Style "Shalyapin Steak Don", maybe.Yoshiki: Shalyapin steak, huh...So he made that cheap meat softer using onions...Yoshiki: But, let's get real, after that dish just now...Right?Katsunori: Haha! You're right, I'd like to go home with the aftertaste of that A5 beef.

p5Yoshiki: Wha...

p6Yoshiki: We-Well, it looks better than expected...Both: ...Ikumi(thinks): Keh, there's no way he could make a decent dish using that cheap meat.Ikumi: !?Yoshiki: My hands won't stop!Yoshiki: The meat's tenderness goes without saying, but not only that,Yoshiki: The finely sliced onion that was plentifully place over it...This stimulates the appetite.

p7Yoshiki: This body is...Red wine?Yoshiki: He put red wine on the fry pan where he fried the steak so that the remaining juices concentrated and he used those juices to fry the onion---Katsunori: In addition, he used potato starch dissolved in water to give it thickness!Katsunori: I can't have enough of the way that thick sauce entangles and entwines with the meat and rice!Shigeno: And yet, the flavor is well arranged by the parched flour soy sauce!Shigeno: He's using the "burnt rice" as a seasoning to give a deep flavor...!Yoshiki: He modified the way to cook the onions that are indispensable for Shalyapin steaks to create a special sauce!!Yoshiki: Moreover, even though both the meat and the sauce have a defined taste,Yoshiki: The more I eat the hungrier I get,Yoshiki: Why is it that I feel as if I could it this forever!?Yoshiki: Is there still another hidden secret!?Souma: That trick is in the rice...Souma: The rice in that done is mixed with "pickled plums",Souma: It's a refreshing Umefuumimeshi! //umefuumi = plum flavor, I don't think I have to explain the meshi partYoshiki: I see...!Yoshiki: What leaves this refreshing aftertaste is plum...!

p8Yoshiki: The fragrant steak with a fluffy texture,Yoshiki: This thick first-rate sauce,Yoshiki: And the fresh plum-flavored rice.Yoshiki: Each of them enhances each other’s deliciousness!!Yoshiki: I can't but gulp down this... //alt. "eat quickly"Yoshiki: Huh...I'm already finished!Shigeno: Seconds!? Can I have seconds!?Shigeno: The Rôti Don was splendid, but...The one that makes me want to eat it more //lit. "Keeps my chopsticks moving"Shigeno: Is this don...!Ikumi(thinks): What!?Ikumi(thinks): They didn't eat all of my garlic rice!

p9Souma: You're thinking "What happened to the rice?” right?Souma: From the moment I heard from Konishi-san that you were using cured Japanese beefSouma: I knew that if you made the rice have a strong flavor to counter the beef's deliciousness they would naturally fight each other.Souma: Your dish looks like a don but it isn't a don...!!Souma: The Don RS' chief said this too,Souma: To the end, DonSouma: Are completed in "one bowl".Ikumi: Guh...Ikumi: Silence...

p10Ikumi: Even if you grumble sophisms, there's no way you can win against my high-grade me...Souma: If you can't accept it then do you want to listen them too?Souma: The words that my Don says---Souma: It's done!

p11Ikumi(thinks): Aah...It's true,Ikumi(thinks): This Don is speaking to me.Ikumi(thinks): "Gulp me downIkumi(thinks): The way you want to!"...

p12Mom: Happy 9th birthday,Mom: Did you like it,Mom: Ikumi?Ikumi: Thank you very much...!Ikumi: I'm really happy, mother!Mom: Dear...Stop!Dad: Shut up!! Don't give her gifts like this one again.Dad: The successor of the Mito household doesn't need gracefulness!!Dad: Listen, Ikumi, be strong,Dad: Only think about that.Dad: Understood?

p13Ikumi(thinks): Damn it...Why did I have to remember that!?Ikumi(thinks): It's this Don's fault,Ikumi(thinks): It's because this Don---Ikumi(thinks): Is whispering meIkumi(thinks): "Do as you like",Ikumi(thinks): "Try being yourself"...Ikumi(thinks): Damn it...Host: Well then!Host: Please make your votes!

p14Ikumi(thinks): Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan //Ok, the kanji after the yell is the kanji for "Japanese Soup Bowl" which is read "Wan"

p16Erina: The kitchen I had given her...Erina: Vacate it.Girl: Ye-Yes.Ikumi: ...Souma: Hey, Nikumi! Let me eat some of your Don too.Ikumi: ...! Don't get cocky...Ikumi: Don't call me using that nickname!Souma: Why?Souma: It's quite cute if you write it with hiragana. //written with kanji it's 肉魅 with hiragana it's にくみIkumi: Hu-Huh!?Souma: Best regards from now on,Souma: Nikumi-chan. //here nikumi is written with hiragana, last time it was written with kanji

p17Ikumi: Wha...Ikumi: What are you saying...Ikumi: You idiooooooot!!Souma: Make sure to come to the clubroom.Kanichi: You...Really are an amazing man,Kanichi: Yukihira...Kanichi: You're the only one who can carry on with the Don RS.Kanichi: The next Don RS' Don is //first one is the food, second is like mafia donKanichi: You! Yukihira!!Text: Next day---Ikumi: ...

p19 //I love the faces in this pageKanichi: Eh!!?Souma: Eh?Souma: I mean, I just went to see how it was...Souma: Well, but thanks to that I could make a new Don dish.Souma: Well then, good work.Souma's sd: I'll go visit you sometime.Kanichi: ---That’s what he said...Kanichi: But well, we have a bigger budget now,Kanichi: So let's liven up the Don RS together!(cutlery): You're kidding me...!Kanichi: The next Don RS' Don is //same as last timeKanichi: You! Nikumi!! //it's written with hiragana again, before, when he said it, it was in kanjiIkumi: Shudduuuuuuuup!! (cd: Don't call me Nikumi!) //it's written with kanji hereKanichi: GyaaaaaaahBox: Since that day, Mito Ikumi became much more ferocious.Shokugeki-no SOMA(cutlery) 13/EndNext Issue, Again, as thanks for the great popularity, extended 23P!!//The preview page for the next issue of WSJ hinted that the next match will be a noodles match. (And that AK's Korosensei likes SOMA because it has nice food and girls XD)